Amazon's dead ends: Frontier-making the centre

摘要: Abstract The spatiality of frontier-making goes beyond the more immediate relocation from ‘core’ to ‘periphery’, entailing a deep relational interaction between old and new areas. article discusses interdependence centre frontier suggests that this happens through ‘law scarcity-abundance’. This ‘law’ synthesizes general tendency deal with mounting scarcity in central areas pledge abundance at frontier, although practice rounds emerge both due internal dynamics capitalism (notably, exploitation society rest nature). means evolution capitalist relations production reproduction is also, fundamentally, based on accumulation frontier-making. conceptual framework then applied Brazil, country largely shaped by territorial conquest expansion economic frontiers. State Mato Grosso, southern tract Amazon, has been forefront for many centuries, recently accelerated spiralling growth neoliberalized agribusiness. Grosso may have now reached national political landscape because crucial importance agribusiness exports, nonetheless it remains space where continue jointly materialize. Frontier-making never ended but persistent necessity, much than simple contingency.